Turner to be shown with Masters Sep 4, 2008
He felt an intense rivalry with the old masters who inspired him - such as Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. When he bequeathed two paintings to the National Gallery, it was on the condition that they be hung next to his two favourite works by Lorrain. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A clear modern vision Feb 17, 2008
The maybe-genuine-maybe-not Nicolas Poussin painting, which stood in the living area as if it were a condensation of the surrounding landscape, is off somewhere being restored. Several of the pavilions are torn up for renovation. (Boston Globe)
Maverick artists Hopper, Turner share the spotlight Nov 25, 2007
However, he was also a master of printmaking and draftsmanship and watercolor and oil technique, as illustrated by efforts as varied as his "Liber Studiorum" (Book of Studies) engravings or pastoral paintings reminiscent of Nicolas Poussin or Claude Lorrain. Born in Covent Garden, London, the son of a barber, Turner enrolled in the school of the prestigious and autocratic Royal Academy of Arts when he was 14. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
In Which World Gallery Nov 12, 2007
Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion by Nicolas Poussin. The (1648), which exemplifies Poussin's interest in classical antiquity, hangs in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. (Suite101.com)
Humanities Day offers peek into world of humanistic scholarship Oct 19, 2007
Richard Neer, the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Humanities, Art History and the College, will deliver the keynote address, Painting as a Way of Life: The Blind Orion of Nicolas Poussin, at 11 a.m. in Mandel Hall ... The talk is about a picture by the great French artist Nicolas Poussin one of the last things he ever did, and one of the strangest. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Oct 19, 2007
Neer will discuss Blind Orion Seeking the Sun (1658), a painting by the 17th-century French artist Nicolas Poussin. Neer will explore the painting s relation to early modern ideas of selfhood, skepticism and science in his presentation, which begins at 11 a.m. in Mandel Hall, 1135 E. 57th St. The daylong event, with three sessions scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., will welcome the public to the world of literary, linguistic and cultural traditions for which the University is... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Sotheby's Aims to Sell Van Gogh's `The Fields' for $35 Million in New York Sep 23, 2007
In the U.K., the Duke of Rutland may sell five Nicolas Poussin works that have hung in London's National Gallery since 2002, according to the Art Newspaper. The last Van Gogh landscape on the market fetched about $27 million in 1995, said David Norman, chairman of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art department, in an e-mail. (Bloomberg -- US)
From Paris to Denver: Louvre art travels west Aug 15, 2007
Works in the October through January exhibition include pieces by Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Nicolas Poussin, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Diego Velazquez and Gianlorenzo Bemini. Slide show. (MSNBC -- Travel)
British Nobility May Sell Off Art Treasures: Martin Gayford Jul 4, 2007
The Duke of Rutland has decided to put on the market five paintings from a series of the ``Seven Sacraments'' by the 17th-century French artist Nicolas Poussin. These have been on loan to the National Gallery since 2002. (Bloomberg)
Friends recall Glass House, now open to public Jun 14, 2007
Although Johnson and Whitney, an art curator, were avid collectors, only two artworks are on display: a statue by Elie Nadelman and a painting attributed to 17th century artist Nicolas Poussin, on a two-legged stand in the middle of the space. "I don't think clutter was allowed," said the painter Jasper Johns, a friend of both men. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Maids murder mystery May 3, 2007
It seems an appropriate choice for a director and writer who, in the 1990s, turned the profane into the sacramental in The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin, a performance installation in the London Hospital; and who discovered beauty in the ugly and vicious in A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, one of the greatest shows of the 1980s. Like Bartlett's own work, The Maids is like nothing else. (Guardian Unlimited)
The High Museum unlocks the 'Gates of Paradise' Apr 30, 2007
Still in its first of three years, the Louvre Atlanta series of exhibitions currently is on view, its latest additions the "Decorative Arts of the Kings" show and the recent arrival of "Et in Arcadia" painting of Nicolas Poussin. ( ). (CNN -- Travel)
Jumping on the Dan Brown bandwagon Feb 21, 2007
Berry this time refers to the 17th- century painting "The Shepherds of Arcadia II," by Nicolas Poussin. But the search by writers for unused symbolic artifacts is so desperate that he does not have Poussin to himself. (International Herald Tribune)
Chapter Two of Louvre exhibit: Poussin Jan 31, 2007
"Et in Arcadia Ego," a mysterious painting by French master Nicolas Poussin, has joined Louvre Atlanta's "Kings as Collectors" on the skyway level ... Nicolas Poussin's 'Et in Arcadia Ego' is the focal point of the next phase of the Louvre Atlanta exhibit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Italian Renaissance comes alive... Aug 20, 2006
Observing over 120 original prints on the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sanzio Raffaello, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Turner and Jean Dominique Ingres, people will naturally understand that the centuries of Western art have been based upon the mythology, literature and religion of renaissance. First appearing in Tuscany, the Italian Renaissance flourished in the cities of Florence and Siena. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Looking at the Louvre Jun 2, 2006
Beginning with the 17th-century galleries, you will get a panoramic survey, from the serene classicism of Nicolas Poussin to the flirty sensuousness of the rococo and on to the masters of the 19th century, such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jacques Louis David and Eug;ne Delacroix. The grand history paintings of the 19th century are show-stoppers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
- Adam Nicolson Mar 11, 2006
That is the underlying meaning of the famous phrase carved on the tomb in the great 1620s paintings by Nicolas Poussin, one now at Chatsworth, one in the Louvre. Et in Arcadia ego means not only that death is to be found in Arcadia, but that without death, without the sharpness of mortality, life in Arcadia would be diminished. (Guardian Unlimited)
Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize Jan 25, 2006
Matisse's vision of Olympian calm was a strategic war plan: he aimed to achieve the great destructive and constructive goals of modernism by imposing the evenhanded clarity and order of the central French tradition inherited from his masters, Nicolas Poussin and Paul C;zanne. The effort took everything he had to give. (Guardian Unlimited)
